TerraWare PC reports melted ASRock RX 9070 XT power adapter
TerraWare PC has reported a melted 16-pin power connector on an ASRock Radeon RX 9070 XT Taichi. The creator said the connector melted while he was capturing footage for an upcoming YouTube video. The card is one of the few Radeon RX 9070 XT custom models using a 16-pin power input instead of traditional 8-pin connectors.
According to details visible in that video, the card was used with an ASUS TUF Gaming 1000W ATX 3.0 power supply. The latest report points to ASRock’s included 16-pin adapter as the part that melted, rather than a native PSU cable.
First RTX 4090, then RX 9070 XT
TerraWare PC also said that his original GeForce RTX 4090 melted “over a year ago.” It looks like this incident happened two years ago in April 2024.
RTX 4090 power cable, Source: Terraware PC
This is not the first reported 16-pin power issue involving the ASRock Radeon RX 9070 XT Taichi. We reported the first known RX 9070 XT 12V-2×6 adapter melting case in August 2025, also involving an ASRock Taichi card. When it comes to Radeon GPUs, later reports mostly involve Sapphire NITRO+ models, which also use a 16-pin connector on their Radeon RX 9070 XT cards.
Source: TerraWare PC
